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When you start working with your templates, your DWT files and your drawings, you DWG files, you need to start looking at Drawing File Management. To give you an example, if I went to save this drawing by using Save As, which is up here, if I do a Save As, what I can do is I can Save As a different drawing file name. I don't want to save over this drawing because obviously I want to keep this drawing but there may be settings in this drawing that I want in another drawing. So I do Save As and give it a different file name. I'll just cancel that for the moment. Now, if I wanted to save this drawing as is, after making some changes but keep the same file name, it will overwrite the existing file. Now, if I go up to Save like this here, that will just do a Quick Save and save any changes I've made over the existing file. Be careful with that. It may be that you want this drawing to be the next revision up so what you would do is you'd go to Save As, like so and you might save it as Drawing File Management and in here you might want to call it Revision 1 like that. Give it a different file name. Same drawing, just a different file name. It's always good to make copies of your existing drawings and do a Save As. That way you don't corrupt the original copies of the drawing. I'll just cancel that for the moment. I don't actually need to do a Save As. Now, talking about Save As, notice when I hit Save As like so, I've got files of type AutoCAD 2007. I've deliberately set that in my options so that every time I do a Save As or I do a Quick Save here, it will save as a 2007 DWG. That means that any version of AutoCAD from 2007 and on upwards can read the drawing. Let's go and have a look at the Options Dialog Box. If I right click and go to Options like we've done before and go to the Open and Save Tab here, notice I've got a Save As set to 2007. I can change the default Save As Option. Notice I can save as a 2010 DWG file. Every three years or so Autodesk change the DWG file format. It's sort of a way of renewing it. It also encourages people to upgrade their software to newer versions of AutoCAD. But if I saved it as a 2010 drawing, let's change that there and OK that, I will now, when I do a Save As here, save as a 2010 drawing instead. Now, what that means is that people with AutoCAD 2010 and above can read my drawing. Now, it may be that the people I'm working with don't have AutoCAD 2010 yet. They might have AutoCAD 2009. AutoCAD 2009 uses the 2007 DWG file format so what I need to do there is cancel that and what I need to do is right click, Options and make sure that I'm using an Optimum File Format with my Drawing File Management that allows me and other users of the drawings to be able to read those drawings. So if I OK that now, whenever I do a Save As, you'll see that I'm saving as that 2007 there. Very important that you contact people, third parties that you work with, especially in architectural design. There will be lots of different people sending you drawings. Make sure that when you send those drawings back, they are in a DWG file format that they can read, otherwise they're not going to be able to read your updated drawings, the design could suffer, the construction of your design could also suffer. It's always a good thing to check. It's a quick phone call or a quick e-mail to check what DWG file type you need to use. That way you've got optimum, efficient DWG file management.